My passion for astronomy start 'soon, at the same time it was decided the fate of the professional office of my mom. Made the mistake of giving me a book in eight years "animated", which was titled "In Search of Heaven": I read it and decided "with great lighthouse 'astronomer'. The decision to survive high school, and the University ', where, after a long battle with mathematics, I met my first experience of observational astrophysics and the first "real telescope, a 40cm Ritchey-Chretien Observatory of Monte Porzio, which was dismantled and reassembled piece by piece from me, and my two fellow enthusiasts and the poor hapless teacher who had the courage to walk among us, Giuliano Natali, who will remember 'always with enormous affection. from them 'to decide that I wanted to work with large telescopes, the step was short and the love you confirm' during the first observing run at La Silla, Chile, back in September 1996: I was very nervous, run my first "serious", the International Observatory, the start of doctoral work, a tool that did not know, the new place, the sky south of the unknown. To help me calm down, I went out to get me a walk and saw, in a beautiful moonless night, a ring of mountains, cut in half by a line of telescopes (14!) and an explosion of stars from horizon to horizon, the Milky Way so a 'bright and clear as to illuminate all the mountains cast shadows of people and telescopes that were admiring a rainbow of stars on a velvet carpet black.
The decision was taken that night: I want to come back here!
And so, 'when at the end of the doctorate I found myself having to choose between staying in Europe, in Italy or to pack up and migrate to the south (' cause yeah, I could choose), I have not had a moment of doubt: they are game on the fly! And I became an astronomer with the suitcase. Travel
to stay with her husband, who was then in the U.S., travels to the shifts in the mountains, travel to return to when in when at home, to attend conferences around the world, to make best efforts to stay in touch with employees, to see Chile So sometimes a real stress ... and some frustration, the feeling of getting back , might not be able to finish an article when you have the time to feel a bit '... Mars: just look at the faces of people he says in casual encounters that work is done and ... when working.
sometimes even stress at work, with colleagues, his head at times I was tempted to send everything to hell. Pero 'I met so many people, so many countries, many friends that are there and some that there are no more' ... and I followed my rainbow of stars, I admired galaxies which are one of my passions and I put my hands on more 'telescopes and instruments than I ever thought possible, just like I wanted to do. And it 'worth it!
And the many people who ask me, in conversations or meetings disclosed to serving my work, I answer: to follow a dream.
Emanuela Pompei
The decision was taken that night: I want to come back here!
And so, 'when at the end of the doctorate I found myself having to choose between staying in Europe, in Italy or to pack up and migrate to the south (' cause yeah, I could choose), I have not had a moment of doubt: they are game on the fly! And I became an astronomer with the suitcase. Travel
to stay with her husband, who was then in the U.S., travels to the shifts in the mountains, travel to return to when in when at home, to attend conferences around the world, to make best efforts to stay in touch with employees, to see Chile So sometimes a real stress ... and some frustration, the feeling of getting back , might not be able to finish an article when you have the time to feel a bit '... Mars: just look at the faces of people he says in casual encounters that work is done and ... when working.
sometimes even stress at work, with colleagues, his head at times I was tempted to send everything to hell. Pero 'I met so many people, so many countries, many friends that are there and some that there are no more' ... and I followed my rainbow of stars, I admired galaxies which are one of my passions and I put my hands on more 'telescopes and instruments than I ever thought possible, just like I wanted to do. And it 'worth it!
And the many people who ask me, in conversations or meetings disclosed to serving my work, I answer: to follow a dream.
Emanuela Pompei
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